Information Collection: NRC Policy Statement, “Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through Agreement,” Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Requests for Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in IMPEP, 67970-67971 [2019-26749]
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being established to preside over the
following proceeding:
Exelon Generation Company, LLC
[NRC–2019–0057]
(Three Mile Island Nuclear Station,
Units 1 and 2)
This proceeding involves a challenge
to an application by Exelon Generation
Company, LLC for an amendment to the
operating licenses for Three Mile Island
Nuclear Station, Units 1 and 2, located
in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The
amendment would revise the site
emergency plan and Emergency Action
Level scheme for the permanently
defueled condition of the units. In
response to a notice filed in the Federal
Register, see 84 FR 47,542, 47,548 (Sept.
10, 2019), Eric Epstein filed a Petition
to Intervene and Hearing Request. See
Eric J. Epstein, Chairman of Three Mile
Island Alert, Inc.’s Petition to Intervene
and Hearing Request (Nov. 12, 2019).1
The Board is comprised of the
following Administrative Judges:
G. Paul Bollwerk, III, Chairman, Atomic
Safety and Licensing Board Panel, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
Dr. Sue H. Abreu, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555–0001.
Dr. Gary S. Arnold, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555–0001.
All correspondence, documents, and
other materials shall be filed in
accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule.
See 10 CFR 2.302.
Rockville, Maryland; December 9, 2019.
E. Roy Hawkens,
Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety
and Licensing Board Panel.
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1 In its memorandum referring the Petition to
Intervene and Hearing Request to the Atomic Safety
and Licensing Board Panel for appropriate action in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.346(i), the Office of the
Secretary stated:
The first eight pages of the hearing request’s
Introduction section contain objections to a no
significant hazards consideration determination by
the NRC staff. As stated at 10 CFR 50.58(b)(6), no
petition or other request for review of or hearing on
the staff’s no significant hazards consideration
determination will be entertained by the
Commission. Accordingly, this referral
memorandum is not to be construed as reflecting a
determination that Mr. Epstein is entitled to a
review of, or hearing on, the staff’s no significant
hazards consideration determination.
Memorandum from Annette L. Vietti-Cook to E.
Roy Hawkens (Dec. 5, 2019).
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
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Information Collection: NRC Policy
Statement, ‘‘Criteria for Guidance of
States and NRC in Discontinuance of
NRC Regulatory Authority and
Assumption Thereof by States
Through Agreement,’’ Maintenance of
Existing Agreement State Programs,
Requests for Information Through the
Integrated Materials Performance
Evaluation Program (IMPEP)
Questionnaire, and Agreement State
Participation in IMPEP
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted a request for renewal of an
existing collection of information to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review. The information
collection is entitled, ‘‘Policy Statement
for the ‘Criteria for Guidance of States
and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC
Regulatory Authority and Assumption
Thereof by States Through Agreement,’
Maintenance of Existing Agreement
State Programs, Request for Information
Through the Integrated Materials
Performance Evaluation Program
(IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement
State Participation in IMPEP.’’
DATES: Submit comments by January 13,
2020. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly
to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
(3150–0183), Attn: Desk Officer for the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725
17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503;
email: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2019–
0057 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2019–0057. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2019–0057 on this website.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov. The supporting statement is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML19302F711.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of
the collection of information and related
instructions may be obtained without
charge by contacting the NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David Cullison,
Office of the Chief Information Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information in
comment submissions that you do not
want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. All comment
submissions are posted at https://
www.regulations.gov and entered into
ADAMS. Comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove identifying
or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the OMB, then you
should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact
information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment
submission. Your request should state
that comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove such
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entering the comment into ADAMS.
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II. Background
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently
submitted a request for renewal of an
existing collection of information to
OMB for review entitled, NRC Policy
Statement, ‘‘Criteria for Guidance of
States and NRC in Discontinuance of
NRC Regulatory Authority and
Assumption Thereof by States Through
Agreement,’’ Maintenance of Existing
Agreement State Programs, Requests for
Information Through the Integrated
Materials Performance Evaluation
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and
Agreement State Participation in
IMPEP.’’ The NRC hereby informs
potential respondents that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and that a
person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
The NRC published a Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on
August 8, 2019 (84 FR 39023).
1. The title of the information
collection: Policy Statement for the
‘‘Criteria for Guidance of States and
NRC in Discontinuance of NRC
Regulatory Authority and Assumption
Thereof by States Through Agreement,’’
Maintenance of Existing Agreement
State Programs, Request for Information
Through the Integrated Materials
Performance Evaluation Program
(IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement
State Participation in IMPEP.
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0183.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number if applicable: Not
applicable.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: Every four years for
completion of the IMPEP questionnaire
in preparation for an IMPEP review.
One time for new Agreement State
applications. Annually for participation
by Agreement States in the IMPEP
reviews and fulfilling requirements for
Agreement States to maintain their
programs.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: All Agreement States (39
Agreement States who have signed
Agreements with NRC under Section
274b. of the Atomic Energy Act (Act))
and any non-Agreement State seeking to
sign an Agreement with the
Commission.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 65.
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8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 40 (39 existing Agreement
States and one anticipated new
application).
9. An estimate of the total number of
hours needed annually to comply with
the information collection requirement
or request: 298,194 hours (an average of
7,455 hours per respondent). This
includes 636 hours to complete the
IMPEP questionnaires; 2,250 hours to
prepare one new Agreement State
application, 468 hours for participation
in IMPEP reviews; and 294,840 hours
for maintaining Existing Agreement
State programs.
10. Abstract: The States wishing to
become Agreement States are requested
to provide certain information to the
NRC as specified by the Commission’s
Policy Statement, ‘‘Criteria for Guidance
of States and NRC in Discontinuance of
NRC Regulatory Authority and
Assumption Thereof by States Through
Agreement.’’ The Agreement States need
to ensure that the radiation control
program under the Agreement remains
adequate and compatible with the
requirements of Section 274 of the Act
and must maintain certain information.
The NRC conducts periodic evaluations
through IMPEP to ensure that these
programs are compatible with the NRC’s
program, meet the applicable parts of
the Act, and adequate to protect public
health and safety.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day
of December 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DATES: Date of required notice:
December 12, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2019-0057]
Information Collection: NRC Policy Statement, ``Criteria for
Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory
Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through Agreement,''
Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Requests for
Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in
IMPEP
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of
information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review.
The information collection is entitled, ``Policy Statement for the
`Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC
Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through
Agreement,' Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Request
for Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in
IMPEP.''
DATES: Submit comments by January 13, 2020. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0183), Attn: Desk Officer
for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20503; email: [email protected].
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;
telephone: 301-415-2084; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0057 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0057. A copy of
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0057 on this website.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to [email protected]. The supporting statement is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19302F711.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by
contacting the NRC's Clearance Officer, David Cullison, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email:
[email protected].
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission. All comment submissions are
posted at https://www.regulations.gov and entered into ADAMS. Comment
submissions are not routinely edited to remove identifying or contact
information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the OMB, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that comment submissions are not routinely edited to remove such
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information before making the comment submissions available to the
public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a request for renewal of
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled, NRC
Policy Statement, ``Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in
Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by
States Through Agreement,'' Maintenance of Existing Agreement State
Programs, Requests for Information Through the Integrated Materials
Performance Evaluation Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement
State Participation in IMPEP.'' The NRC hereby informs potential
respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a
person is not required to respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on August 8, 2019 (84 FR 39023).
1. The title of the information collection: Policy Statement for
the ``Criteria for Guidance of States and NRC in Discontinuance of NRC
Regulatory Authority and Assumption Thereof by States Through
Agreement,'' Maintenance of Existing Agreement State Programs, Request
for Information Through the Integrated Materials Performance Evaluation
Program (IMPEP) Questionnaire, and Agreement State Participation in
IMPEP.
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0183.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: Every four
years for completion of the IMPEP questionnaire in preparation for an
IMPEP review. One time for new Agreement State applications. Annually
for participation by Agreement States in the IMPEP reviews and
fulfilling requirements for Agreement States to maintain their
programs.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: All Agreement States
(39 Agreement States who have signed Agreements with NRC under Section
274b. of the Atomic Energy Act (Act)) and any non-Agreement State
seeking to sign an Agreement with the Commission.
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 65.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 40 (39 existing
Agreement States and one anticipated new application).
9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 298,194
hours (an average of 7,455 hours per respondent). This includes 636
hours to complete the IMPEP questionnaires; 2,250 hours to prepare one
new Agreement State application, 468 hours for participation in IMPEP
reviews; and 294,840 hours for maintaining Existing Agreement State
programs.
10. Abstract: The States wishing to become Agreement States are
requested to provide certain information to the NRC as specified by the
Commission's Policy Statement, ``Criteria for Guidance of States and
NRC in Discontinuance of NRC Regulatory Authority and Assumption
Thereof by States Through Agreement.'' The Agreement States need to
ensure that the radiation control program under the Agreement remains
adequate and compatible with the requirements of Section 274 of the Act
and must maintain certain information. The NRC conducts periodic
evaluations through IMPEP to ensure that these programs are compatible
with the NRC's program, meet the applicable parts of the Act, and
adequate to protect public health and safety.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of December 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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